Empty board evaluation

[max-uho]

Sorry to ask this here, it's less of an issue than a request for explanation.

The "Evaluator.evaluate" method contains a docstring stating that empty boards can be used, but I can't figure it out.

My use case is that I'd like to evaluate hands before the flop (basically playing the entire game open-faced).

Hope you can shed some light on this, and thanks again for maintaining this fork.

[ihendley]

Hi, I cannot explain the note about supporting empty board evaluation in the docstring, so I will delete it. The code clearly doesn't support evaluation 2 card hands. It works by looking up 5+ card hands in a hash table.

What exactly do you mean by evaluating hands before the flop? This isn't as well defined since it might mean equity vs opponent, equity vs random, or some description of hand and/or potential e.g. "pair + flush draw".